Occultsystem is Canadian producer Robert Squire's first release on the LA label, and also marks a major return to music after moving to Montreal to open a barber shop. The one-time hip-hop producer formerly known as Sixtoo (and one member of Megasoid) has lived all around Canada, and he established the Prison Garde moniker while in Vancouver around 2011 as an outlet for house and boogie-influenced hardware jams. The imprint calls the tape "ten of his starkest greyscale technoid skeletons" made using "a TR-909, Moog Minitaur, Juno-60, Tetra synthesizer, 3630 Compressor, some pedals, and a mixing desk." Montrealer Ango and Vancouverites Ace Decade and Kevin Eames also contributed to the release, which is out digitally today. You can stream "Black Grey Modulator" below.

Vancouver label ASL Singles Club also has an EP in the works from Squire, this time a five-tracker called Forts which is due out in late June.

DJ Harvey, Derrick May, Omar-S and Dopplereffekt are among the acts confirmed to play Melkweg.

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Prison Garde is the latest incarnation of electronic music monolith Vaughn Robert Squire. A man of many monikers and creative outlets, with a well celebrated history that spans multiple eras and genres of music (as Megasoid, Sixtoo,Villain Accelerate and S&N to name a few projects), Robert is currently spending his days working as a Gallery Curator and Creative Agency Director at Catalog, Gastown, Vancouver.
His nights are spent (as you would expect) expanding on his more well known life as a world-class DJ, Producer, Remixer and Live P.A. act. With almost 20 years of visible contributions to electronic music + an incredible track record for taste-making (Designing for / A&Ring / Producing other artists on) some of the best labels and parties to emerge from North America, he is no stran..View the full artist profile